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<h1>Tkinter tutorial</h1>

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This is Tkinter tutorial. It covers the basics of GUI programming 
in Python with Tkinter. The tutorial is suitable for beginners and 
intermediate programmers.
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  <li><a href="introduction/">Introduction</a></li>
  <li><a href="layout/">Layout management</a></li>
  <li><a href="widgets/">Widgets</a></li>
  <li><a href="menustoolbars/">Menus &amp; toolbars</a></li>
  <li><a href="dialogs/">Dialogs</a></li>
  <li><a href="drawing/">Drawing</a></li>
  <li><a href="nibbles/">Nibbles</a></li>
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<h2>Tkinter</h2>

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<b>Tkinter</b> is a Python binding to the Tk GUI toolkit. 
Tk is the original GUI library for the Tcl language. Tkinter is 
implemented as a Python wrapper around a complete Tcl interpreter 
embedded in the Python interpreter.
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There is a full <a href="/lang/python/">Python tutorial</a>
on ZetCode. The original Tk toolkit in Tcl language is covered in
<a href="/gui/tcltktutorial/">Tcl/Tk tutorial</a>. Tutorials for other GUI toolkits
for Python language are <a href="/tutorials/pyqt4/">PyQt4 tutorial</a>,
<a href="/gui/pysidetutorial/">PySide tutorial</a>,
<a href="/wxpython/">wxPython tutorial</a> and
<a href="/gui/pygtk/">PyGTK tutorial</a>.
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